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Subject: [OM] Re: OT naughty bits
From: "Julian Davies" <julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:19:12 -0000
And of course all the main words to describe particularly womanly anatomical 
features are masculine. I'll let you look them up....
IMHO This tells you all you need to know about French logic!!

Joyeux Noel a tous, et bonne annee.

Julian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 5:35 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT naughty bits


>
> Get yourself a proper 'disgraceful dictionary' - that'll give you a
> full range although you realise quickly that you'll never speak the
> bloody language demotically.
> As a side point, amusingly, 'bitte' and four of the five alternatives
> that I have listed are feminine in gender!
> They say that a language reflects the preoccupations of it's speakers -
> thus, the Inuit have an awful lot of words for snow of various kinds.
> And English has a truly amazing number of word for the male member.
> Hmmmm...
> AndrewF
>
>
>
> On 25/12/2004, at 1:38 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
>>
>> Thank you Phil for pointing out the limitations of my education in the
>> French language - and enabling me to discover the extent of coverage
>> of my
>> dictionary, without which je n'en rien b*te.
>
>
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